Intellectual Quotes · Page 28

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

— Tucker Max

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

— George Edward Woodberry

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

— Dinesh D'Souza

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

— Alan Watts

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

— Ray Manzarek

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private…

— Christopher A. Wray

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things…

— Guy Consolmagno

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

— David Lynch

“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible…

— Lionel Suggs

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with…

— Barbara Smoker

I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling…

— Lillian Hellman

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model…

— Henry Louis Gates

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made…

— Arthur Lynch

Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in…

— Georges Bataille

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made…

— Margaret Mead

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once…

— Ludwig von Mises

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any…

— Michael Coren

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the…

— Isabel Paterson

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as…

— Georges Braque

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

— J. Arthur Thomson

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual…

— Jon Appleton

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

— Whitfield Diffie

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

— Tullian Tchividjian

DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the…

— A'Lelia Bundles

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter…

— Amos Lee

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

— Steve Jobs

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for…

— Sheila Heti

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

— David Cross

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets…

— Jean Baudrillard

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

— Bliss Perry

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his…

— Jean Piaget